film and rangefinders alive and healthy!!

sig said:
(...) clearly there are some places (...) people who use mechanical film cameras do it to be cool...... seems like he hit a nerve?:D
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Don't know. I'm too cool to care... :cool:

Regarding the topic, I think digital is best suited for 2 groups of people: those that earn their money with photography, and those who don't really care about photography and just want to get some pics with a minimum of hassle.

For me, too much of the magic is missing in digital photography. It's just not the same fun.

I wonder if this will change when I get my Fuji X100 next year. ;)
 
Tompas said:
I think digital is best suited for 2 groups of people: those that earn their money with photography, and those who don't really care about photography and just want to get some pics with a minimum of hassle.
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Wow, pure nonsense...
 
I guess I'm maybe like Steven Spielberg in a sense...he acknowledges digital is fast, easier, and in many ways better, but he still likes to handle film emulsion and spool it on the editing table.

I guess the film users are just closer to their inner auteur ;)
 
Quickly spiraling into the film vs. digital debate again. I wish I could put this in all caps, but good Internet forum etiquette prevents me: Shoot what you like until it is no longer available. Then find something else that you like and shoot that. Repeat ad infinitum. Who cares what medium other people shoot?

I really don't understand the film vs. digital taunting and cajoling.
 
Tompas said:
Don't know. I'm too cool to care... :cool:

Regarding the topic, I think digital is best suited for 2 groups of people: those that earn their money with photography, and those who don't really care about photography and just want to get some pics with a minimum of hassle.

For me, too much of the magic is missing in digital photography. It's just not the same fun.

I wonder if this will change when I get my Fuji X100 next year. ;)
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you wont make much money if you don't care!
 
Photography is easy, taking "good" pictures is very difficult, taking "great" pictures is almost impossible.

Just because digital makes the technical part easy, it does not mean it also makes taking "good" pictures easy.

The day a technology comes along that makes taking good pictures easy, that would be the end of photography as we know it, but rest assured that day will never come.
 
ok lets not turn this conversation again into film vs digital. Lets make this forum where do we see which kind of cameras in different cities of the world.

So to see a film camera on the street is not uncommon in Berlin and Tokyo (oh yes and NYC), where else?
 
I'm speculating but I think most large Chinese cities and Hong Kong... China is probably the second largest photography market after US.
 
LeicaFoReVer said:
ok lets not turn this conversation again into film vs digital. Lets make this forum where do we see which kind of cameras in different cities of the world.

So to see a film camera on the street is not uncommon in Berlin and Tokyo (oh yes and NYC), where else?
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Also Cambridge and Oxford in the UK...
 
I'm flickr friends with a young Chinese man. He has a ton of cameras, Rolleis, Leicas, this, that and the other. His pictures are kind of boring though. They're mainly just him and his girlfriend posing with said cameras. But having said that, it's a good window into what an up and coming country China is.
 
LeicaFoReVer said:
NYC is not the center of world. Is there any other cities people see many film cameras?
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I see a lot in Los Angeles.

Fraser said:
I think you get a far better user experience with an F4 than an F, maybe its a generational thing, when I was a teenager and would look in the camera shop window at the new Nikon F4 for £1800 and know I couldn't afford one but now you can pick them up for £100 for a bit of nostalgia.
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I did that exact thing. When I was a kid, I couldn't afford an F4s, and thought it was one of the most beautiful cameras ever. Still do.. so I got one last year, cheap, as a nostalgia thing... I've only put maybe 3 rolls through it. It's a little disappointing to use because it's so damn big and heavy, and the AF is slow compared to my F100 or D200, but it looks cool on my shelf.
 
I think street photography is seeing a bit of a revive at the moment. There certainly seem to be a lot of them around taking photos in New York. Many would argue that the Leica is the best tool for the job.
 
I haven't seen another film camera while out and about here in my nook of Texas. But I admittedly don't live in an "arts" capitol.
 
My last two three day outings at Disneyland in Anaheim, California was a film only event for me, but I was interested to see if anyone else was so inclined. I did see a few film disposables and many digital P&S, DSLRs and celllphones, but not one non-disposable film camera.
 
This past summer I got to spend a week around Estes Park Colorado and only saw one other film camera the whole week. A Minolta slr. No one noticed my M6 but several people did look twice at my IIIc. In downtown Estes I passed a shop that had a Leica sign so I had to go in. It took me a while to find a very small display with an M8 and a pair of binoculars. The clerks acted like my M6 was the first they had seen. Joe
 
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